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A recent report published by PreScouter reviewed three broad areas of blockchain deployment in the healthcare, biopharmaceutical, and medical technology sectors as well as the challenges these sectors need to overcome for wider adoption. In this article, the authors of the report review their findings.

Certain advances in technology don’t just promise new capabilities but threaten to change from the ground up how research is conducted in a lab group or company. In this interview, I speak to ACD/Labs' Andrew Anderson about how the day-to-day life of a chemist has been changed by technologies like AI and automation.

SLAS2020 began with an in-depth look at how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the landscape of drug discovery. On January 27, hundreds of attendees welcomed Jackie Hunter, Ph.D. to the stage as she offered those listening key insights gained from over 30 years in the bioscience sector.

As the novel coronavirus, that originated in Wuhan, China continues its global march, the first two cases have been confirmed in the UK. This brings the number of affected countries to 24, although all 213 deaths have thus far been isolated to China.

Concrete examples of how AI can improve fields like life sciences can be hard to come by. I recently spoke to InveniAI's Krishnan Nandabalan to find out exactly how AI technology can boost the life sciences.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely known for its space exploration activities. But NASA also has a deep interest in looking towards our own planet. In this article, we explore how NASA's weather monitoring systems use powerful supercomputers to understand our planet's climate.

Scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) published a study outlining their successful feat in mapping the proteome of the exceptionally small mouse uterus.

Whilst WHO officials are yet to declare the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan a global health emergency, China are taking preventative steps in the face of a growing and spreading caseload.

The value of information to many companies across the biomedical area is incalculable, but there has been a reluctance to embrace the need to properly store that data to maxmize its utility. We talked to Arawan Gajajiva, a principal solution architect at cloud data warehouse provider Matillion, to find out that can be changed.

In epidemiology, prevalence and incidence are among the most fundamental measures when it comes to monitoring disease. But do you know what they mean or how and why they are important? This article takes a look at disease prevalence and incidence, what this information tells us and how it can be used.